Three-year-old Extreme Choice has made stunning return to racing to upstage an elite field in the Group One Moir Stakes including the world’s highest rated sprinter. The Blue Diamond Stakes winner had Chautuaqua on his back coming to the home turn in Friday night’s weight-for-age 1000m sprint at Moonee Valley… Read More »
Trainer Tony McEvoy will consider backing Hey Doc up in the Caulfield Guineas 2016 after the gelding raced to a convincing win in the Group Two Stutt Stakes at Moonee Valley. Hey Doc remained unbeaten from three starts this campaign, making his move wide near the home turn before sprinting… Read More »
The Darren Weir-trained Real Love has renewed her Caulfield Cup hopes with a dominant win in the JRA Cup at Moonee Valley. A fast-finishing second in the Dato Tan Chin Nam Stakes at Moonee Valley, Real Love failed second-up when unplaced in the Naturalism Stakes. The mare bounced back in… Read More »
The second group of international horses being set for the Melbourne spring carnival has entered pre-export quarantine in centres in England and Ireland. The first shipment will arrive in Melbourne on Saturday with five Melbourne Cup 2016 entries among the six horses preparing for the next shipment. They are Big Orange, Bondi… Read More »
Trainer Con Karakatsanis is again in the spotlight with Howmuchdoyouloveme who has been found to have swelling in his offside jugular vein. During a routine inspection of horses engaged at Randwick on Saturday, the Racing NSW Surveillance Unit reported Howmuchdoyouloveme had swelling over its off side jugular vein, reportedly from… Read More »
Punters and bookmakers seem to be able to find many reasons why Amexed can’t run well in the Metropolitan Handicap but his trainer can find a few to say he can. Only one horse is at a longer price than Amexed in Saturday’s Group One staying test over 2400 metres… Read More »
The Turnbull Stakes looms as a crucial spring carnival race for Sofia Rosa who will be out to press her Caulfield Cup claims in the Group One feature at Flemington. The Australian Oaks winner has finished 10th and ninth respectively in her two spring starts in Melbourne in the Memsie… Read More »
Melbourne Cup-winning jockey Michelle Payne is set to have her first runner as a trainer with New Zealand filly Queen Of Zealand an acceptor in a maiden race at Stawell. Payne will ride the filly in Tuesday’s 1300m-race as she begins a new phase of her career having recently been… Read More »
Hartnell has wowed Sydney racegoers with two dominant weight-for-age wins recently and the gelding now gets the opportunity to do the same in Melbourne. The John O’Shea-trained Hartnell makes his first Melbourne appearance of this season in Sunday’s Group One Turnbull Stakes – a race he finished fifth in last… Read More »
Chris Waller didn’t need to ask Hugh Bowman what shape Winx was in after her latest track gallop – the jockey’s beaming grin said it all. The champion mare worked in the Melbourne direction at Rosehill on Tuesday as her trainer continues tuning her up for her next start in… Read More »
With Omei Sword scratched from the Flight Stakes, the remaining fillies are lining up for the ultimate redemption in a Group One race. In a field littered with hard-luck stories, Omei Sword contributed her own chapter after her spring ended on Thursday morning when she was found to be suffering… Read More »
While lightweight up-and-comer Antonio Giuseppe is the clear Metropolitan Handicap favourite, Chris Waller believes stablemate Who Shot Thebarman is just as attractively weighted. Sydney’s premier trainer has six runners in the 13-horse field for the $750,000 Group One Metropolitan (2400m) at Randwick on Saturday. And Waller is having a hard… Read More »
Brad Rawiller has declared his fitness to ride Lucky Hussler in the Moir Stakes less than a week after injuring his leg in a barrier incident he says could have been much worse. Rawiller suffered the injury at Caulfield before the opening race last Saturday when his mount played up… Read More »
Star Queensland sprinter Buffering is in the corner of the Western Bulldogs ahead of the AFL Grand Final. Nine-year-old Buffering made his choice at Flemington on Thursday morning, ahead of the Group One Moir Stakes at Moonee Valley on Friday night. Buffering was led by trainer Robert Heathcote’s travelling foreperson… Read More »
Odds on favourite for Saturday’s G1 Flight Stakes ‘Omei Sword’ has been scratched due to a respiratory infection. Waller told Racing NSW Stewards on Thursday the infection was found after she showed poor recovery from trackwork. Omei Sword was the $1.60 favourite for the race before coming out of markets…. Read More »
A horse trained by Terry and Karina O’Sullivan has returned an illegal level of cobalt for the second time. Darragh, who is already the subject of a Racing Victoria investigation for his high level recorded in November last year, is one of two horses from the stable to return elevated… Read More »
Buffering needs to do something he has never done before if he is to claim an historic fourth Moir Stakes victory. The Queensland star’s rivals in Friday night’s 1000m Group One sprint include the world’s highest-ranked sprinter – Chautauqua – who Buffering has been unable to beat home in their… Read More »
Happy Trails will front up for the fifth-straight year in the Turnbull Stakes at Flemington and his trainer Paul Beshara believes the veteran is still up for the fight. “He is the Rocky Balboa of the racing world,” Beshara said. “He’s there all the time. No matter how old he… Read More »
In-form Godolphin-owned gelding Hartnell is one of nine Group One winners among a field of 13 for the Turnbull Stakes at Flemington. Hartnell will be making his first Melbourne appearance of the season in Sunday’s 2000m Group One race and has barrier four while last year’s winner Preferment is next… Read More »
A few months ago it seemed Buffering might have run his last race but the durable veteran has surprised even his trainer as he heads to Moonee Valley to try to win the Moir Stakes for a fourth time. And with no Queensland team in this weekend’s NRL grand final… Read More »
